edshots

As a CPS worker I will never tell a parent that it's okay to hit a kid. While I recognize that sometimes it is an effective means of changing behavior it is not a good long term strategy. It is specially un-effective after a kid hits about seven or eight.

I guess that's why I am specially annoyed by the parent of a teen who thinks that beating the snot out of the kid is really going to matter. What it really is going to teach the kid id that A) if I get caught I can deal with the repercussions and B) don't get caught.

I don't mind physical discipline. I mind ineffective physical discipline.